john 'mr. customer' smith

I'm watching FLCL and as expected, I have no clue what's going on, but I'm still watching it just for the insane(ly good?) visual direction. I know there's supposedly a deeper meaning behind a lot of stuff, but I'm not sure if I'll care about that enough at the end to dig for it edit: finished it, I guess it could have been some kind of coming-of-age-story, that's all I can say about it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have this weird urge to go iron my shirts now.

I like a bit of incest, but inbreeding just makes me want to throw up. I might still try it though, thanks.

Confession: It's been way too long since I've played a good nukige

There's a member called Voltaire the loli meister and he turned 101 today. Good god.

That's just mean Well, i appreciate the comments nevertheless

Because I'm on a tablet and I couldn't be bothered to find out how Hey, at least this milestone actually means something, namely that I can give myself a bit of extra text on my thingy

Oh look, another one I didn't expect this to take so long (almost a year), but I guess I'm just not as much of a shitposter as I thought I was I can't say that I have always agreed with the consensus of this community (if there ever was one) or that I haven't had my fair share of bitter (or indeed salty) aftertastes from some people's posts. And while I can't guarantee that my ever-changing interests won't steer me away from it anytime soon, I have experienced (and learned) some great things, and met some truly awesome people. I have, for example, learned that arguments are flexible and arbitrary things, and that I do not need to hate myself when someone uses them to prove something I emotionally disagree with. And that's not even talking about some of the things I've learned from vns. TL;DR I love you. Yes, you, procrastinating weeaboo, sitting behind your keyboard. You deserve to be happy. Also, something something ask me anything (ANYTHING, I DARE YOU) something something don't really want to do shoutouts something something don't like to exclude anyone Have a nightstand that I made. Sorry it's rotated.

Oh sorry. Why do I always get offended so easily... Yeah that does sound depressing

Well excuuuuuuse me, princess, but how is it depressing? (or indeed, a synopsis at all?) Anyway, I just don't care very much about plot, more about art & sound Nisioisin can go suck a dick for all I care doesn't interest me, I'm afraid

I'm quite interested in Kubikiri Cycle, since Okama (my favourite Japanese artist) is doing the storyboard, and it's the first time he's doing so. Really curious how that's going to turn out. Also, Yuki Kajiura speaks for herself.

Congrats! I bask in your shitposting magnificence (just kidding, I think you've been of great value to this community from what I've seen.) Have a namesake from my favourite movie ever Edit: By the way, I noticed your profile says female when it used to say not telling. Can you comment?

It's a very liberal adaptation from what I hear, but yeah, most Madhouse films are amazing. I don't really get why you love the ending so much though.

Fair enough. For manga, I mostly value raw, artistic expression through great artwork, with YKK being my favourite manga so far. With Tezuka, the pages I've seen don't impress me, but I can obviously still appreciate a well-written story so I'll definitely give one of those a try

There's no denying the man's influence on Japanese popular culture, but does any of his work still hold up in any way, writing or art-wise? From what I've heard, he always cared more about quantity than about quality, and it's logical to assume that anything new he did at the time will now have been done better at least once, but I just don't know, and I can never get myself to read something without at least some indication of its quality.

Behold, Kanon 2002 You can probably guess which studio this came from coughtoeicough Also, @ChaosRaven there's been a lot of great anime movies since 2010 imo

Try Transistor. It's easily my favourite rpg of all time and while it's not Japanese, there's quite a strong influence in terms of visuals. The unconventional combat will turn a lot of people off, but if it doesn't, it can be a very satisfying and beautiful experience

It's just a website bae, don't you have something more meaningful to do than lord it over us filthy weebs who don't know a good story when it hits them in the face?

Finally finished Gankutsuou. It ended up being really good, and the last parts were very moving and very satisfying. When I started watching it, I was hoping it would be some kind of work of art that would rely heavily on its crazy visuals for storytelling, but that only really ended up being the case for the first and last two episodes. In between, it was mostly just there for added character. Nevertheless, I found the show very suspenseful and engaging, despite my usual indifference to plot-heavy media. Also, Haydée is my waifu the most aesthetically pleasing thing I have seen in any anime, manga or vn thus far. She's like the embodiment of everything I love about all my favourite art movements.

Ded thred Here's a translated article about the history of Hentai Manga. Don't worry, you don't need to subscribe to read it https://www.fakku.net/hentai/hentai-manga-a-brief-history-of-pornographic-comics-in-japan-english

I wonder what Sakura Nova is based on... There's a questline in Maplestory with the exact same story premise, artstyle (some of the assets and backgrounds are scarily similar), costumes, weapons & monsters and it's even called Nova, but that game also had a habit of ripping off taking inspiration from other media, so I'm genuinely curious now...

It's probably too early since the announcement of Sona-nyl, but I'm still hoping for Valusia or Requiem. Soontm

Okay, Harmonia, you've made me wait for you since I started reading vns, now you better not let me down.

Fun fact: This was originally supposed to be released for their fifteenth anniversary, which was in 2014 Anyway, looking forward to it.

You don't actually hate fun